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Originally Posted by micromachine
How many F-16 are available on the world market at the moment?
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IIRC (although it could have been a different one), one of the pieces I linked to reported that Norway has already shot down the idea of donating its Falcons, which are presently being retired, to Ukraine. AFAIK, so far, no nation has come forth and definitively declared that it will be donating/selling Falcons to Ukraine. The answer to that vital question remains up in the air. That said, I doubt that NATO members would be preparing to train UAF pilots on the F-16 as they are if a plan to provide them with the aircraft isn't already more or less in place.
Yesterday, I read somewhere that the US has dropped any objections to third party nations passing their F-16s along to Ukraine, so that's a positive development. The piece linked below has some details about what a pilot training program might look like, and puts a surprising four month timeline on the process.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...st-four-months
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